Padang

Earthquakes near Padang, 1927–2026

From 1927 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 14 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Padang, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 7 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 7.9 on September 12, 2007 (87 km SW of Sungai Penuh, Indonesia).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Padang in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.6 on September 30, 2009 (30 km WSW of Pariaman, Indonesia), for which NOAA records 1,117 deaths. 9 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 9 of the events here, 1,441 in all. The ten years with the most magnitude 6+ earthquakes were 2007–2016, with 6 of the 14. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.2 on July 21, 2018 (22 km SE of Solok, Indonesia). NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Padang. It reached 0.27 m, on September 30, 2009. NOAA lists 5 significant eruptions of one volcano within 100 km of Padang. The largest was Marapi in January 1975, at 2 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 80 people by NOAA’s count.

The events

Good to know

  • An event counts for Padang when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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